From: Daniel Ehrenberg <littledanehren(a)yahoo.com>
--- Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)math.ucr.edu>
wrote:
[Sent both to wikiEN-l and directly to mav.]
> Does this mean that [[User:GayCommunist]] is
offensive as well?
Not to me. Although user:GayCommunist was neither
gay
nor a communist if I recall... He did it more or
less
for shock value, which may form cause for a name
change.
Or is it
because [[User:Jesus is Lord!]] makes a
direct claim, so that [[User:Subject of
Lord
Jesus]]
would be
fine?
Bingo! It is a bad idea to allow bumper sticker
messages as user
names.
> --mav
That sounds completely arbitrary. I think all
usernames should be allowed. How do usernames affect
our development as an encyclopedia?
LDan
I suppose "Jesus is Lord" is so horribly offending to
some, that just by the ***sight*** of the name, they
might be repelled and flee away from Wikipedia.
Perhaps setting a scale of offense would be good here.
Calling people nazi was tolerated for months, but
just seeing "Jesus is Lord" in the RC is not.
Has a user already taken the name Nazi ?
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